Here is a trailer for an intriguing project/film entitled Exploring Origami, which is currently in production.

GREEN FUSE FILMS’ current documentary project, “Exploring Origami (working title)”, will illuminate the beauty, complexity and powerful duality of origami in the 21st century, and the unexpected lives it shapes. Viewers will travel far beyond conventional child’s craft to discover unforeseen directions in origami that decidedly blur the line between dizzying science and dazzling art.

Here’s an amazing life performance by Nina Simone of ‘Ain’t Got No…I’ve Got Life’. Dig that wicked hairdo of hers.

Here is a simple and clever how to that I found on Instructables - how to make your own shoulder strap for a tripod.

The Guardian has a free mp3 download of Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band’s new single ‘Radio Nowhere’. You can see the blurb about the free download here, or just download it here (use the old right-click save target/save-as). Evidently this is a limited time offer that is good for one week starting yesterday (the 28th). You can also get the song for free this week from itunes.

If you do download the song, give it a listen and let me know what you think. For me the song is good, but not great, especially as a lead off single for an album. It has a classic Springsteen and E-Street Band sound, but does not hit me like a rockin’ track. To me, it’s more of an album track. Although, Clarence Clemons sax playing while brief is delicious.

‘Radio Nowhere’ is the first single from the upcoming album ‘Magic’, which is to be released on October 15.

‘Magic’ Song Titles:
1. Radio Nowhere
2. You’ll Be Comin’ Down
3. Livin’ in the Future
4. Your Own Worst Enemy
5. Gypsy Biker
6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
7. I’ll Work for Your Love
8. Magic
9. Last to Die
10. Long Walk Home
11. Devil’s Arcade

‘Magic’ is the first new studio album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band since 2002’s GRAMMY Award-winning, multi-platinum, number one album ‘The Rising’ (Columbia Records), which was also produced by O’Brien.

Bruce Springsteen’s longtime manager Jon Landau said, “‘Magic’ is a high energy rock CD. It’s light on its feet, incredibly well played by Bruce and the members of the E Street Band, and, as always, has plenty to say. It’s also immensely entertaining. ‘Magic’ is the third collaboration between Bruce and Brendan O’Brien and is a culmination of their very productive creative relationship.”

Pop over to Found in Mom’s Basement for a great collection of vintage ads.

This looks like a wild recipe - Pancake Soup from Delicious Days.

Sustainablebusiness.com reports that PepsiCo. is purchasing renewable energy certificates (RECs) to offset its electricity use in the U.S. PepsiCo. will be buying 1.1 billion killowat-hours, which is the equivalent of its annual usage.

PepsiCo now leads the following lists:

The Top 25 list, which recognizes the nation’s largest purchasers of green power. EPA partners are buying more than 8.9 billion kilowatt-hours kWh of green power annually, an increase of nearly 425% since the end of 2004.

EPA’s Fortune 500 Challenge, launched in late 2006, focuses on the collective green power purchases of eligible Fortune 500 companies with a goal of a combined total of more than five billion kWh of green power by the end of 2007. Johnson & Johnson, Nike and Applied Materials also moved up in the challenge as a result of increased purchases, and Baxter Health Care corporate headquarters found its first ranking in the challenge.

The new “100 Percent Green Power Purchaser” list, which features organizations that are buying enough green power to meet 100 percent of their organization-wide purchased electricity use. This list includes more than 300 partner organizations demonstrating environmental leadership — from the largest corporations and government entities, down to some of the smallest organizations and businesses in the United States.

From Fortune:

On April 26, when the shareholders of French food giant Danone congregate in Paris for their annual meeting, they will have a unique proposal to consider: setting up a mutual fund to channel investment into Danone’s nonprofit social ventures in developing countries.

Unlike Danone’s regular business units - which produce yogurt, water, and cookies - the ones receiving investments through the proposed new fund, to be called “danone.communities,” will aim for “maximization of social objectives and not that of profit,” according to the proposed resolution.

Danone initially hopes to raise $135 million and promises it will return a guaranteed rate comparable to a money-market account - about 3% to 4% annually, says Emmanuel Faber, Danone’s president of Asia-Pacific operations and the brains behind the project. The company’s management says it is confident the measure will pass. The fund is to be managed separately by bank Crédit Agricole, and be open to the French public as well as institutional investors.

Kudos to Danone.

Have you ever wanted to know the history of the sandal? Follow this link to not only learn about the history of the sandal, but also trace it evolution through time. The page is by Cameron Kippen, Curtin University of Technology in Perth.

Matt Groening and the rest of the gang behind Futurama had teamed up with Al Gore to create this “terrifying environmental warning”, aka a commercial for the theatrical release of An Inconvenient Truth.

Now this is a stool that I want to plop myself on…this is the “in the hot seat” stool by Qualicum Beach, British Columbia design studio Flavour Design.

Here is a little item that I found on Etsy, ‘love bubbles float away’ a photo by Cabaret/Voltaire. Prints are available for sale. The photo was taken of some graffiti in Dresden, Germany.

Wil Hylton has a thrilling article in GQ positing the idea that the Vice-President of the U.S.A. Dick Cheney should be impeached. Unfortunately there is not a single page view of the article, so you have to view the article page by page for 8 pages. It is, nonetheless worth your time as the article presents a smart and focused account of Cheney’s actions and makes an interesting case, this is not to say that I endorse it.

Now that is one hot looking coupe! For non-European readers, Opel is GM’s European (but not UK) division. The Gran Tourismo Coupe is a concept car that is being revealed at this year’s Geneva Auto Show. If this concept ever sees the light of day as a production vehicle, we North Americans may not entirely out of luck as all Saturn cars will be based on Opel cars. So, perhaps GM will make a Saturn out of the Gran Tourismo.

via autoblog

Moss has put out a collection of 5 crocheted finger puppets featuring Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Ahmadinejad and George W. Bush. Oh joy! It’s the War on Terror on your hands!

Chow.com has this creative and very useful piece on how to go about eating those messy and hard to handle foods like lobster, Peking duck, and peas.

From our friends at Esquire:

We put 250 napkins in the mail to writers from all over the country — some with a half dozen books to their name, others just finishing their first. In return, we got nearly a hundred stories. We present a sampling here — from lush to spare, hilarious to terrifying.

Napkin fiction is what the name says, fiction written on napkins. You can read dozens of napkin fiction tales here.

It was back in 1964 that the Beatles performed the following Shakespearean sketch on a British TV show. John’s dressed as a woman and the audience loves it. What a video!

via artsjournal

Evidently FedEx will not ship empty cans and containers if they have labels like rocket fuel or gravity.

FedEx guy: Is this really what this is? Rocket fuel?
Me [laughing, used to this reaction from being at the space-travel supply store]: Oh, no, no, no. Of course not. It’s… made-up. Kind of a joke. It’s actually full of sugar, which I just put in to give it some weight, but that’s all it is.
FedEx guy: You can’t ship this.
Me: But… it’s just sugar! What, uh, what if I empty it out? It doesn’t really need to have sugar in it.
FedEx guy: No. They would still x-ray it, and then you’d get a call when it was en route. I don’t think it would make it.
Me: Hmmm. I really need to get this out… but I guess I don’t have to ship the “Rocket Fuel” can. What about the rest?

via found on the web

Here is a video that is for hockey fans, it is the introduction to the 1980 NHL All Star Game, featuring the likes of Wayne Greztky, Brian Trottier, Phil Esposito, Larry Robinson and Gordie Howe in his last All Star appearance. That is some reception for Howe.